On September 6th in US Political History
On September 6th in 1620 The Pilgrims left on the Mayflower from Plymouth, England to settle in the New World.
On September 6th in 1876 The Southern Pacific rail line from Los Angeles to San Francisco was completed.
On September 6th in 1861 Union General Ulysses S. Grant's forces captured Paducah, Kentucky from Confederate forces.
On September 6th in 1862 Stonewall Jackson occupied Frederick, Maryland.
On September 6th in 1866 Frederick Douglass became the 1st US black delegate to a national convention.
On September 6th in 1901 President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded (he died eight days later) by Leon Czolgosz. Czolgosz, an American anarchist, was executed the following October.
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